Door holder



Oct. 20, 1931. c. J. CRAWFORD 1,828,242

DOOR HOLDER Filed DeO. 3l, 1929 a@ www einem@ Patented Oct. 20, 1931 UNITED fsTATss PATENT ortica Application led December 31, 1929, Serial No. 417,755.

This invention appertains to a novel deing a trip member for moving the latch bar vice for holding a door open against accifrom out of engagement with the holding dental closing movement. pin of the keeper to permit the closing of the One of the primary objects of my invention door. y is 'the provision of a device associated with lFigure 5 is a vertical section taken on the 55 a door for engaging a keeper member carried line -5 of Figure 3 looking in the direcby the door frame, whereby when the door tion of the arrows,fand

is moved to an open position the keeper en- Figure 6 is a horizontal section taken on gaging the device will hold the door against the line 6 6 of Figure 3 looking in the diy l0 closing movement, novel means being assolection of the arrows. 6a

ciated with the keeper and carried by the Referring to the drawings, in detail, door for releasing the engagement 0f the dewherein similar reference Characters desigvice with the keeper from the door so as to nate corresponding parts throughout the sevpermit the closing of the door, when it is eral views, the letter A generally rindicates deSreCL my improved door holder applied to a door 65 Another important object of my invention D and a door frame F. The door D is of is the provision of a latch bar pivotally carthe usual or any preferred construction and ried by a door and slidably received in a is connected by means of hingesl() with one keeper yoke swivelly secured to the door jam post yl1 of the door frame F. j p

frame, with a pivoted trip member carried My improved door holder A comprises a 'IU by the keeper and Operated from the door flat nletal latch b21-P15 hai/ing One end PIO- y for moving the latch bar out of engagement vided with a vertically disposed eye or hinge with the keeper to permit the ordinary closbarrel 16 through which extends the pivot ing of the door. Y bolt 17 carried by the door bracket 18. The

25 A still further object of my invention is door bracket 18 embodies a face plate 19, 'i to provide a novel device of the above charwhich is secured to the inner face of the door acter for holding a door in anopen position, adjacent to the'upper edge thereof by suitable which will be durable and efficient in use, one

fastening elements7 such as screws 20. The

that will be simple and easy to manufacture, face plate is provided with the laterally eX- and one which can be placed upon the market tending pivot ears 21, through which extends su and associated with a door at a small cost. the pivot bolt 17. It is to be noted that'the With these and other objects in View, the eye or hinge barrel 16 is arranged between the invention consists in the novel construction, pivot ears 17 but is of a less height than the arrangement and formation of parts, as will distance between said ears so as to allow be hereinafter more specifically described, .movement of the latch bar lrbetween the 85 claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying ears. The bore of the hinge barrel 16 is of drawings, in which drawings a slightly greater diameter than the pivot Figure 1 is a vertical section through a bolt-17 so'that the latch bar 15 is permitted door frame showing a door in its opened poof a slight rocking movement on the bolt as 40 sition with my novel door holding device apwellas turning rotary movement. Connected 90` plied thereto and holding said door in its by means of suitable fastening elements 25 opened position. to the cross piece 12 of the door frame F is Figure 2 is a top plan view of my improved an angle bracket 26 to which is swivelly condevice applied to the door and door frame, nected bymeans of a bolt 27 a U-shaped latch:

Y the door being shown in its opened position. bar keeper guide Q8. The latchbar 15'is re- 99- Figure 3 is a vertical section through the ceived through the guide 28 andlias itsinner keeper carried by the door frame showing end providedwith a rightsangularly extendtlie latch bar held therein against movement ing foot 29 to prevent accidental, displace'- for holding the door in its open position. nient thereof from the guide incident to the k Figure l is a view similar to Figure 3 showopening andy closing of the door. 100

The lower free ends of the arms of the pivot bolt when the door is in its open posi- U-shaped latch bar keeper guide 28 has pivtion, a trip member rockably mounted upon otall connected thereto by means of a oom- Said combined latch and pivot bolt upon billed keeper and pivot bolt 30 a trip member which the latch bar rests when the bolt is 1n 31, having its forward end provided with dethe recess, and a ull cable secured to the trip o pending angularly disposed arms 32. The member for IOC lng the Same, whereby t0 lower edge of the latch bar'l adjacent to the false the latch and its rece above said comfoot 29 1s provided with a. transversely exblned latch and pivot bolt. tending notch 33 and it is to be noted at this In testlmony whereof I affix myV signature.

point that during the opening and closing CHARLES J. CRAVFORD. 75

of the door the lower edge of the latch bar will slide on the combined keeper and pivot bolt 3() and that when the door D is opened, as shown, in Figures 1 and 2 the combined l5 keeper and pivot bolt 30 will ride into the 80 notch 33, the latch bar 15 dropping under the action of gravity. This will effectively hold the door 1n its open position.

In order to permit the release of the latch bar 15 from the door D I provide a pulley 85 40, which can be swivelly connected as at 41 to a bracket 42 connected to the door D adjacent to the upper edge thereof and below the door bracket 18. Trained over the pulley 40 is a pull cord 90 43, one end of which is connected with the depending angular arm 32 of the trip 3l while the other end ofthe pull cord can be provided with a pull r' g 44 or the like. It is obvious i that when pull 1s exerted on the cord 43 that g5 the trip member 31 will be rocked, raising one end thereof upwardly into engagement with the lower edge of the latch bar 15, as clearly shown in Figure 4 of the drawing. 35 This will lift the latch bar 15 above the com- 1n.-

bined keeper and pivot bolt 30 and thus the walls of the notch will be moved from out of engagement with the keeper bolt, allowing the door to be returned to its closed position. u. By this construction, and arrangement of j@ parts, it can be seen that an exceptionally simle and durable device has been provided or holding a door in its open position against accidental closing movement and in which .4l said holding means can be readily released from the door when it is desired to close the same.

The construction of the holding device also permits the use of the latch bar l5 to be used Ii as the door holding member and also as a latching device.

Changes in details may be made without l departing from the spirit or the scope of this invention, but i Si What I claim as new is :r

A door holding device comprising a door bracket, a latch bar rockably carried by the bracket, a door frame bracket, a guide member receiving the latch bar swivelly carried its by the door frame bracket, a combined latch 12a and pivot bolt extending transversely across the guide member on which the lower edge ol* the latch bar normally slides, the lower edge of the latch bar being provided with a keeper recess for receiving said combined latch and 13e 

